Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero!cs.duke.edu
From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Posting re. Andrea Dworkin
Message-ID: <656617328@lear.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 22 Oct 90 17:42:09 GMT
References: <272090CA.26470@ics.uci.edu>
Sender: nadel@aerospace.aero.org
Organization: The Piranha Club
Lines: 14
Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org
Status: R



In article <272090CA.26470@ics.uci.edu> (Diana Bental) writes:
>Andrea Dworkin's book "Pornography" makes it very clear that for
>Dworkin, the issue is that women are hurt and humiliated by pornography
>and that in such a context "aesthetic merit" is irrelevant - i.e.

The debate is *not* about "aesthetic merits."

The debate is about the right of *consenting* adults 
to do what they like with their bodies.

For some reason Dworkin and MacKinnon have thought that they have the
right to to control these bodies in the name of "women's liberation".

BTW it is interesting to note that these two prudes wrote, in their
    anti-porno laws, that all men-gay porno humiliates women...